Kolkata, June 3: The BJP government in West Bengal will observe June 20 as state day from this year, Minister Dilip Ghosh said on Wednesday after a Cabinet meeting.
He said that under Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s leadership, June 20 was marked as “Bengal Day” in the then Bengal Assembly following a vote on a resolution that day in 1947, which paved the way for the partition of Bengal and the formation of the state of West Bengal.
“From this year, June 20 will be officially celebrated as West Bengal Day,” Ghosh said in a media briefing after a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
The BJP used to mark June 20 as ‘West Bengal Day’ even as the previous Trinamool Congress government used to observe it on Bengali new year day, Poila Boisakh, which falls on April 14 or 15.
Ghosh, the state’s panchayat minister, said that under the supervision of the Information and Cultural Affairs department, Jana Sangha founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary will be celebrated across the state through year-long programmes.
Mookerjee’s birth anniversary is celebrated on July 6. (PTI)
